Community Management Pack Catalog
Management Packs for Operations Manager and Essentials 2007
Collection of management packs community sources, listed in alphabetical order. You can also find the System Center Pack Catalog by clicking HERE.
Last update: March 24th, 2009
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requires OpsMgr SP1 |
by Raphael Burri, The Adobe Flash Media Server management pack monitors the health of Adobe?s FMS 2 and 3, installed on Windows Computers. It provides discovery, availability, performance collection rules, performance reports and FMS related tasks. |
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requires OpsMgr SP1 |
by Raphael Burri, The AD Integration Demo management pack overcomes LDAP query constraints and automates implementation of a workaround for per-OU targeting of agent assignment in AD Integration. |
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AD Integration RunAs Alert Supression requires OpsMgr SP1 |
by Raphael Burri, The AD Integration RunAs Alert Suppression MP implements a workaround to eliminate misleading RunAs alerts when implementing AD Integration for Operations Manager 2007. |
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ver 3.0 |
from Ron Williams, this sample MP provides a right-click ability to forward an alert to someone via email. |
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Backup Unsealed Management Packs ver 3.0 |
by Neale Brown, Derek Harkin and Pete Zerger, this MP performs nightly backup of unsealed MPs to a folder on the Management Server using an embedded Powershell script, as well as a version?archive of X days previous backups as defined by the user. User configurable settings are?exposed as overridable parameters in the?timed?event rule executing the script.?This is an great update to version 1.0 by Derek Harkin. How-to and screenshots for this MP are available HERE. |
| by Scott Vintinner, this simple “proof-of-concept” management pack to monitor some of my Cisco routers. The MP is configured to discover a Cisco 2600, 2800, and 2801 router. Currently it will monitor up to 4 interfaces for up/down port status, errors and incoming/outgoing bps. Detailed description HERE. | |
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from SCF (Neale Brown), This MP uses a 3rd party DLL to check the response of a DNS server. This can be used to check the availablity of external DNS servers. |
| Allows creation of geographic topology map for monitored resources in Operations Manager. | |
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by Matt Goedtel(MS), this management pack augments the existing Active Directory management pack by monitoring the following specific components and subsystems that Active Directory relies on, which are not captured in the current version, including issues with site boundaries, time synchronization and FRS-related issues. |
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by Jaime Correia, this was the winner of the System Center Solutions Contest. Created in parts 1 and 2 of our Scripting Series, this sample MP contains a variety of file system monitoring rules, including monitoring for the presence or absence of a file, file age, file size, and file count. Additional rules of folder size and count are also included. |
| by Brian McDermott (MS), this MP uses Powershell to allow creating a new Notification Subscription targeted at future occurrences of a specific alert. | |
| by Kevin Holman (MS), this management pack using a SQL database as the CMDB source for populating OpsMgr groups, instead of AD. | |
| by Anders Bengtsson, this management pack allows security groups in Active Directory to be used to discover classes in Operations Manager 2007. For example if you already have your servers divied into security groups in Active Directory, you can use these groups-become-classes for targeting discovery and monitoring. | |
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by Andrzej Lipka and friends, allows putting a group of objects into maintenance mode on a scheduled basis (up to 10 groups). Download our user guide HERE. |
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by Andrzej Lipka, by default it discovers all event logs on all computers, monitoring is enabled by adding an override and after monitoring is enabled you can do some customization of thresholds (80 and 90% by default AFAIR) |
| by Raphael Burri, Pete Zerger, Jaime Correia, Neale Brown, this is a complete rewrite of the original Multi-host Ping Management Pack. The new version provides class-based ICMP ping of user-defined names (called Ping Targets). MP includes both ping availability and performance monitoring, with custom alert, performance and state views. Diagram view of ping target displays target health from multiple watcher nodes (called Ping Watchers). New version is delivered sealed to provide clean upgrade path. | |
| by Pete Zerger, provides an agent task to allow on-demand testing of end-to-end notification functionality in Operations Manager and Essentials 2007 (requires SP1 or later). | |
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(Alert on Pending Actions) |
Filling a small gap in OpsMgr 2007, This Custom MP will scan the Operations DB used by Ops Mgr 2007 and alert if there are any pending actions. |
| from Cameron Fuller, this sample MP illustrating process monitoring provides alerting if a process specified is not running within an acceptable range. For example - MyBigCustomerApp.exe not running at least once on this server send me an alert. | |
| by Pete Zerger, this MP presents two console tasks targeted at computer selected in monitoring pane. The first uses psexec.exe to create remote interactive command prompt. The second uses psloggedon.exe to retrieve logged on users. | |
| from Cameron Fuller, this MP adds Tasks that allow operators to highlight an alert and submit a search to the SystemCenterForum knowledge base for answers, as well as share their own solutions with the community. | |
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from Derek Harkin, It allows you to turn on and off maintenance mode for a monitored server by simply running a vbscript on the monitored server itself. It does not require anything extra installed on the server (no powershell, .NET etc). No OpsMgr console required! |
| from Maarten Goet, this MP checks the status of tasks in the Windows Scheduler. | |
| from Raphael Burri, this is another flavor of Scheduled Tasks MP that checks the status of tasks in the Windows Scheduler. This one supports Windows 2008 and 8 languages! | |
| from SecureVantage, This MP is based on guidance of Security MVP Randy Franklin Smith, this MP includes monitoring for some of the most critical security events in an Active Directory environment. | |
| SMB File Share Performance | This contains two sample scripts to log response time data of a SMB share by copying a file to a specified share. |
| SMTP Check MP | from Neale Brown, this is a sample MP containing a script that checks a target server’s SMTP port. The script uses the Toolsack DLL to perform the network tasks. |
| SNMP Custom Extensions Library | from Raphael Burri, this is a sample MP that demonstrates SNMP OID query-based discovery. |
